One-page websites have been around for a long time now, but only in recent couple of years we have seen such a large influx of people who want to use one-page templates to promote their business, their apps, or their portfolio. One-page websites in that sense are great because they remove clutter, and they establish a foundation of a single page (one page) to convey all the necessary information, only to lead up to a call to action (if necessary) for signing up, for purchasing, or for otherwise engaging with your idea. The most successful one-page websites know that the focus should remain only on the essentials, meaning there’s no room for rubbish!
Of course, we should still remember about things like organic marketing (Google and such), and one-page websites don’t really impose any threats for building well-strucutred websites that can also benefit from pagination (each part of the single page can be optimized for different anchors through the use of HTML elements), and also external link building; once again making sure that external links point to your specific anchors. Other such concepts include optimizing our code for search engine spiders, and ensuring that we are using the right HTML tags and elements to highlight our most important aspects of the website we are running.
One-page or single page websites are often seen taking advantage of JavaScript and jQuery to create dynamic effects like vertical and horizontal navigation options, to implement custom scrolling techniques for opening and closing different parts of the site, as well as the integration of Parallax web design; which can turn your one-page website into a stunning work of art by itself. Parallax also allows to use your one-page website as a vessel of transmitting an interactive story that will leave a lasting impression on those who interact with it. Single page websites are known to appeal to customers and visitors in general because they tend to keep the fluff out, and thus make it easier to understand the purpose of what you are trying to sell, or promote.
If you are looking for some cool inspiration as to what has been built with the concept of one-page in mind, we recommend this piece from Creative Market, in which there is some insight about the best tips for building a one-page website, but also a number of examples of other businesses and individuals who have used the concept of one-page to build state of the art websites.
Needless to add, one-page sites tend to take a fraction of the energy and time than a website that’s built on dynamic management system and consists of a lot of internal software — one-page websites can be quickly updated, and provide an easy to maintain environment. When putting together our list of the best Bootstrap one-page templates, we took all of the above tips and recommendations in mind to provide you with the best possible roundup of such templates to date. We hope you can find a combination of styles and colors that resonate with your idea, and do let us known in the comments once your project has gone live as we would love to check it out!
Creative
Creative will be a great starting web page for businesses who simply want to get the word out by promoting services, outlining previous experience in form of portfolio, as well as providing easy to navigate contact details. The use of Bootstrap in this style is very clear, which brings together a very seamless and appealing style that is easy to customize and optimize in a way that’s most suitable for your project.
Agency
Start Bootstrap has been truly a godsend for the free theme community, their themes have exceeded the expectations even of the most experienced designers. Agency is a modern one-page template built with Bootstrap that will best suit agency and small business type projects. Agency’s a fully responsive HTML5 template that provides widgets like smooth scrolling, custom navigation, responsive fallbacks and more. Create an appealing services segment using Font Awesome icons to better outline your offers. Those who wish to promote their portfolios will be pleased to use the grid module with a popup preview so you can really talk about your past work experiences in detail. There’s so much more to the Agency template and we highly recommend to dive deeper in this free experience.
Freelancer
Freelancing is becoming one of the hottest job industries of this century. More and more people are beginning to acknowledge the immense benefits of learning individual skills and finding individual work on your own schedule. Freelancer is a great Bootstrap HTML5 theme to use for promoting your freelance skills and experience. It utilizes FLAT design aspects with the integration of FLAT Icons, as well as Font Awesome Icons. A navigation menu that will collapse automatically once visitors start scrolling. It is of course fully optimized for all devices; meaning responsive. The in-built contact form (also mobile friendly) is built with PHP and you can easily edit and modify it as per your own necessary requirements.
Grayscale
The world of themes and templates can become so complicated, with so many choices out there — what it comes to essentially is the integration of your own personality within the design you’re choosing. Grayscale is a very gray and dark theme, so if you’re looking for making a much more strong appearance, this might be the exact template to do it with. Pages come with smooth scrolling, there’s a full integration of Google Maps API, and even a PNG map marker to make it more clear about your business’s physical location. Overall Grayscale is a very minimal theme that can be used to promote yourself or your business without the extra effort.
One Page Wonder
Web design and free templates aren’t always about getting the best with no additional work necessary. One Page Wonder from the team at Start Bootstrap is all about helping you to bootstrap your very own one-page template through practice and experience. We can definitely see this template being used by actual developers themselves to host libraries amongst other web things, but more than that — this is the perfect one-page Bootstrap template for practicing Bootstrap and front-end web development.
Sumo Landing
BlackTie brings us this gorgeous one-page (which can also be used as a landing page) web design template that will work best with platforms and products that are already in live production. The main page can be used to talk about your business through a headline and a small description, as well as to collect email addresses, the same page (first one) also allows to promote your social media networks on the top-right corner. Other page elements include the ability to discuss your product, and to showcase the pricing for different packages. A dynamic widget at the footer of the page allows to share sliding testimonials, quotes, and reviews that will inspire your potential and exisiting customers or clients. Those who run their business using the WordPress blogging platform will be very happy to learn that BlackTie also provides a WordPress version of this great template.
Multi
Multi has accumulated more than 65,000+ downloads to date, and not because at one point there was a huge gap in available styles, but because Multi is a truly sophisticated template offering one of the biggest varieties of features like HTML5 elements and CSS3 features. Multi lets you talk about your business like no other theme ever will, yet it maintains its simplicity and ease of use; which for many reasons has been why so many are attracted to this template. Features include a very fluid one-page layout, a fixed navigation bar, an in-built set of the most modern SEO features, responsive web design optimized for all device types, a fully functional contact form, and much more. Do take your time to explore this theme deeper, because it offers a very overwhelming amount of features, many of which need to be acknowledged to be fully understood.
Fimply
Fimply is a refined Bootstrap one-page template that will best work for serious type businesses and agencies that want to talk about their vision, goals, and future plans in a way that it makes sense to be discussed within a single page website. Fimply’s light choice of color will make this an appealing template choice even for those sites that just want to promote a service or an offer. Contact form, testimonials, pricing, portfolio grids and much more are all part of the package, and what a nice package it is. Balanced typographical choices truly shine in the overall feel of Fimply.
TechGut
Some themes are best used in alignment with your business field, and as the name suggests here, TechGut will be the perfect Bootstrap template to use for your technology oriented business or project. Even just by scrolling the template a few times, it becomes evident that TechGut is using the latest web development standards and tools to provide a truly revolutionary web browsing experience for its users. Blogs, portfolios, small businesses and agencies can all benefit from this template. The use of jQuery and AJAX enables to create the web page experience that feels more like an application, than a website. Font Awesome, Cross-Browser support, Sticky Menu, CSS3 Animations, Revolution Slider and so many more plugins and widgets are what make TechGut a number one choice for serious technology oriented people. 12,000+ downloads and counting.
Unika
ShapeBootstrap has definitely been one of the biggest supporters of one-page templates on our list so far, and we’re happy to say that a few more themes are yet to come from these guys. Unika is a dynamic one-page template that will work great for agencies, portfolios, and small businesses who want to capture the essence of their business in a single page. The use of interactive jQuery widgets makes Unika an appealing choice for any company or individual out there who wants to spice things up not just for themselves, but also for the audience that is interacting with the website. Unika like other templates on our list will give you all of the necessary freedom to fully create a site that reflects your goals and ideals. Demo page offers a simple left-sidebar widget to change the color scheme to better understand how the template works under different color settings.
Oxygen
Whenever a new idea is being executed (or launched), the process involves building a website that can be used to attract clients and partnerships, and those who have done this process in the past might be fully aware of the fact that hiring a web designer (and developer) to do the work for you can be a very costly process indeed. Oxygen is a HTML5 Bootstrap one-page template that shows everyone how free templates can dominate the market. This super-responsive one-page template uses the latest HTML5 features to let its users create web pages for industries like applications, services, agency offers, portfolios, software, creative work, and small business. Oxygen’s elegant design choices speak for themselves. Clean codebase means it’s easy to optimize and customize. Google Fonts, Font Awesome, smooth scrolling, a lightbox effect for photos, and an in-built slider are just a few of the major features behind Oxygen’s success. Reaching nearly 20,000+ downloads already.
CVstrap
One-page templates just like landing page templates offer more than just a single variety of websites, and CVstrap is the perfect example of that. CVstrap (as you might have guessed) is for those who wish to promote themselves through their CV using a simple online web page. CVstrap lets you talk about your social media connections, your job experiences, allows you to express your personal statement and what drives you, you can also display reviews, awards and the set of your skills. It’s the perfect solution for freelancers who just want to get on with the next job, without having to discuss too many details. Great and creative choice of colors makes it easy to actually read throughout the web page, rather than skim it over.
SinglePro
For a business to be taken seriously, it needs to leave a good impression first. And if you’re struggling with making that connection yourself, tap into the potential of the SinglePro template — a balanced lightweight style that uses the color blue to display warmth and affection for each visitor coming your way. SinglePro integrates a fully retina-ready responsive design for ensuring your one-page website functions on all devices accordingly, there’s a choice of ten different color schemes (more than just blue eh!) to give you a variety of design potentials and ideas, lots of sliders to help you play with the elements more, an in-built portfolio gallery, a contact form that can also be used to display Google Maps location data, and much more. Take SinglePro for a spin if you’re managing a serious business and need a serious answer to having a great website.
Egret
Egret is advertised as a template for the use of app showcase and product display, but we believe it can be used for much more than that. It actually feels much like a multi-purpose theme that will work great with people who have fashion design styles in their mind. Egret’s biggest upside seems to be the delicate use of typography and colors to ensure each description feels authentic and easy to follow. There’s an interactive content display widget (cards) that can be used to showcase your best product/app features in a very unique way. All other elements and widgets are what you would expect for a product landing page to have.
Timber
It can certainly be a little bit frustrating to have to use the same design that tens of thousands of others are using, but in reality — the chances of running into the same design even twice are very dim, and with just a few modifications we can make our designs look unique and authentic. Timber by nature is a very appealing one-page template that will for sure capture the attention of your visitors, but more than that — it’s a flexible template that allows easy modifications and adjustments to create a feel and look that better resembles your own ideas. Timber uses a minimal-style approach with a classical feel to it. A slider, data counters, icon boxes, dynamic widgets, separate areas of visual and raw content, social media widgets, gallery widget for sharing portfolio grids, a subscription form for collecting emails, and so much more is what makes Timber a truly unique Bootstrap template.
Flatmate
Flatmate will appeal to modern freelancers and individuals who just wish to promote their services and products, without the extra complications. The biggest upside of Flatmate is that this theme is strictly focused on content that’s in front of you. As you are scrolling down the single page, you’re still interacting with other site’s elements, which can be so important in helping to establish a flowing feeling of the website itself. You should use this template for any kind of internet sites like Cellular Apps, Product Launching web sites and any kind of site of this nature. The contact form at the bottom of the page is a stunning example of how Bootstrap can be used to build truly beautiful and authentic web pages.
Evento
Events are such a huge thing these days. Back in the day the way to learn more about events in your area was through newspaper and local advertisements (posters and flyers), whereas today all we really need to do is to download an application like Eventbrite and we are all set! If you happen to be running an events agency and you are looking to build a website themed around events, then Evento template might be the exact answer you are seeking. Evento offers a full-fledged one-page events template built with Bootstrap that gives you access to tools and widgets like — countdown for next event, lineup of events, about events, social stream integration, sponsorship display and much more. Evento will work great for agencies as well as for individual bands who wish to get the word out. Highly recommended template for anyone involved in the creative music industries.
Magister
Magister takes the term one-page very seriously. With Magister you only get a single page to explain everything you want to explain about your website, business or creative idea that you’re exploring. You can add different pages to your project, but others will have to access them using the menu icon in the top-left corner. Other than that the theme is very simple, you can change the background image to be whatever you wish for it to be and this of course adds a lot more personality and freedom to your experience as well.
Marco
We did look at one of BlackTie’s templates in this list already, so we think it’s time for another one! Marco is a truly creative one-page template that supports the latest developments in HTML5 and CSS3 — Marco’s goal is to serve as a template solution for agencies and businesses who feel free about sharing their work with the world and receiving direct feedback back for it. Most of Marco’s elements are all about sharing and displaying work, but once the actual work samples have been uploaded, the design comes together beautifully — and you can of course just modify the template to better suit your own needs.
Sertin
Sertin is a free Responsive Multi-Purpose Parallax One Page HTML5 bootstrap template, simple, clean, contrast, stylish and professional look. It suitable for Landing page, one page website, visual portfolios, web design company, personal page and business type page, It’s a responsive template so it looks perfect in desktop, tablets and all mobile devices. It comes equipped with a set of 30+ different website elements that you can use straight away, and because the author (Rachid Lajmi) has decided to also share the PSD with the designer community, you are in total control of how each of the elements look and feel on your own finalized version of the site. Sertin is one of those templates that when optimized and adjusted, could actually win you several design awards!
Amoeba
The flow of parallax design becomes clear the moment you begin to scroll down the Amoeba template. Amoeba is a charming HTML5 one-page template that will give life to online businesses, agencies, creatives and even those seeking to create personal sites. FLAT design, a sticky menu, premium quality. What else could we ask from a free template? Don’t let the price-tag confuse you, there’s a button that says ‘Download’ on the middle of the page (or you can just click the download link below), so watch out for it.
Rakib
Rakib displays confidence, and is a true multipurpose template. Responsive and clean designs are the starting points for this HTML5 based template. Agencies, creative workers, studios (yoga, spa, meditation, etc,.), beauty salons and even freelancers can all find use for this template. What stands out the most with Rakib is the bright choice of colors, this makes the rest of the site’s elements to come together in alignment without making it seem or feel like there’s room for improvement. This design has its own character and personality. Animations are supported with the CSS3 fallback and transition features (thanks to jQuery) so the website will work smoothly on mobile devices also. Supports Font Awesome and Google Fonts.
Pluto
Pluto is the first one-page template on our list that takes full advantage of Google Material Design; and it shows! Every component that comes with the Pluto style (both free and premium versions) is built on top of the Material Design UI base, giving designers and developers a chance to see how material design interacts with the web in a fully developed template. Just by looking at the demo page we can already see that material design means serious business, and anyone from app developers to creative agencies will be able to find use for Pluto’s versatility. The design itself is clean and very friendly to the eye, the documentation offers lots of details and explanations on how to make the most out of this style, and there are so many other cool features to explore.
Dark Joe
As you will quickly learn, Dark Joe is a template for showcasing your previous work, your skills, and your availability for hiring you as a freelancer or contractor. Dark Joe takes modern design concepts and amplifies them with the use of Bootstrap, HTML5 and CSS3 all at the same time. The codebase is clean and easy to work with, the theme is cross-browser and cross-device compatible, it has been built with SEO in mind, the focus has been put on UI and UX, and countless other features are what make Dark Joe the perfect personal portfolio theme out there.
Life Coach
What’s cool about web design is that it can really be tailored for specific occasions and requirements, and we know for a fact that the Life Coach one-page template is the perfect example of how a style, colors and pictures can be used to convey a clear message as to what the purpose of a website is. Life Coach style is for those who are working in the alternative / holistic medicine fields and want to promote their work from a friendly, warm and welcoming website. Life Coach helps yoga teachers, mentors, coaches, psychologists and others working in similar fields to advertise their services, offers, and previous experience to help connect and resolve issues. Definitely check out the demo page and the actual template page to learn more about the kind of features Life Coach brings to the table.
Brushed
Brushed represents the kind of template you would want to for your favorite code editing program; the dark background with modern and concise elements is what makes a design feel substantial. Brushed is built using HTML5, CSS3, and Bootstrap technologies to bring forward a flexible template that can be used for sites in the field of creative work, studios, creative people, and agencies. Everything feels so alive with this template it’s refreshing!
Meetup
What’s Meetup? It’s a template for helping others meet up! Or maybe not. Meetup is actually a great template choice for anyone who plans on hosting a conference or a public talk and wants to use a website as a centralized point of communication and staying up to date. This free one-page template will allow you to outline the most important details of the event in the way you prefer, as well as talk about the individual speakers who will be giving their talks, a pricing widget lets you setup Buy Tickets buttons, and there’s also a widget for outlining the actual event schedule ahead of time. Contact form and Twitter stream widget are also available.
Flusk
Last up we have Flusk, a stylishly executed multi-purpose template for startups, web design/developer agencies, developers and designers themselves, small businesses as well as many others. Flusk makes simplicity look elegant and appealing in a way that it promotes independence and understanding of good UI and UX concepts.
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